Picture Gorge 1 ( of the United States)

Also known as UCMP V-6666

Where: Grant County, Oregon (44.7° N, 119.6° W: paleocoordinates 44.5° N, 111.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Johnson Canyon Member (John Day Formation), Harrisonian (24.8 - 18.5 Ma)

• late Late Arikareean

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; tuffaceous, gray, yellow siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. M. Hunt, Jr. and E. Stepleton. 2004. Geology and paleontology of the upper John Day beds, John Day river valley, Oregon: lithostratigraphic and biochronologic revision in the Haystack Valley and Kimberly areas (Kimberly and Mt. Misery quadrangles). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 282:1-90 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 170308: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 18.06.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Carnivora - Canidae
Cynarctoides cf. luskensis Wang et al. 1999 bone-crushing dog
Desmocyon thomsoni Matthew 1907 bone-crushing dog
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Camelidae indet. Gray 1821 camel
"small camelid"
Paratylopus sp. Matthew 1904 camel
 Artiodactyla - Tayassuidae
Tayassuidae indet. Palmer 1897 peccary
UNSM 7046-95
 Artiodactyla - Moschidae
"Parablastomeryx cf. advena" = Pseudoblastomeryx advena
"Parablastomeryx cf. advena" = Pseudoblastomeryx advena Matthew 1907 musk deer
 Artiodactyla - Palaeomerycidae
Dromomerycinae indet. Frick 1937 ruminant
UNSM 7053-95
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equidae indet. Gray 1821 horse
"anchithere" UNSM 7052-95
 Rodentia - Mylagaulidae
Mylagaulodon angulatus Sinclair 1903 rodent
 Rodentia - Heteromyidae
Schizodontomys greeni Rensberger 1973 rodent
 Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Leporidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817 rabbit
UNSM 7045-95